For this second session as part of The Guild programme, Mat Jenner (TACO!) and Ben Urban (Flatland Projects) share insights into their respective organisations, and how artist-led spaces are developing new models and community knowledge regionally. 

Mat Jenner is an artist who works in art making, curating, studios, and institutions. He has exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2017, he established TACO! An artist-led space in SE London that is engaged with its local context, centres artist practices in the way it works and grows, and supports a dialogue between artists, audiences, community, and place. Mat has previously held leadership roles at a range of arts organisations, including Studio Voltaire, Forma, Grand Union and SPACE.

Ben Urban is a curator and cultural worker based in Hastings, where he was born. He studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths University of London, and later studied for his research degree at the University of Kent, specialising in Disability access in cultural, leisure and sporting environments. Currently, he works as the Director and Co-founder of Flatland Projects, an arts organisation focused on artistic development and the commissioning of national and international artists’ first institutional exhibitions. He is also the lead, and member of the founding steering group of Beeching Road Studios, a brand-new facility focused on artistic production, studio space, and viable career pathways for artists and creatives of East Sussex

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